If you walk into any Central Utah Clinic, you’ll see physicians and staff using electronic health records, or EHRs. Instead of the paper charts of...
Tag - Meaningful Use
Epic Systems may be the undisputed champion of the hospital EHR, but it’s no slouch when it comes to physician offices, either. New research from SK&A...
By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate and Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate eMail: audits@emradvocate.com Website: www.meaningfuluseaudits.com Well, you could...
Earlier this year members of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) pointed to the abundance of published research...
With Stage 2 of Meaningful Use right around the corner and interoperability of health IT systems heading the list of requirements, hospital executives are...
There’s nothing like a crisp New England winter evening, a roaring fire, a cup of cider, and a 242 page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to fill your Friday...
David Hayes sat 3 feet away as Dr. Steven Bailey swiveled on a stool to look him in the eyes, then spun back to stare at a computer screen. Bailey’s...
Office visits are likely to decrease as both physician and patient rely more on digital tools, study concludes. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Stage 2 Meaningful Use places new and greater requirements on eligible hospitals and professionals. What makes this next phase of the EHR Incentive Programs a...
One pillar of this brave new world of health care is the idea that doctors, patients, insurers and other stakeholders will all have access to electronic health...
Few health care providers have adopted an electronic health record system that would meet the requirements of Stage 2 of the meaningful use program, according...
Providers may be lacking one big, basic ingredient for a successful Stage 2 attestation: a certified EHR capable of meeting the Meaningful Use objectives. The...
Reporting on contextual and implementation details of clinical decision support tools and computerized provider order entry systems has been...
CMS as of the end of November 2013 had disbursed more than $17.7 billion in incentive payments to eligible hospitals and medical professionals participating in...
Industry expert: “Big data is closer than it appears” Shane Pilcher Only a very small percentage of healthcare organizations today seem to be leading the way...
Six more software vendors in recent weeks had specific electronic health records products certified for meeting some or all requirements of revised Stage 1 and...